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Blamable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Deserving blame; culpable. See Synonyms at blameworthy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Deserving blame

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Deserving of blame or censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious

Word Usage

"According to the Sharon-Bush doctrine, if you harbor a terrorist -- that is, if you live anywhere in the vicinity of a terrorist -- you are yourself as blamable as the terrorist and are as appropriate a target of destruction."

Equivalent

guilty

Antonym

blameless sinless innocent

Cross Reference

guilty sinful reprehensible

Form

blamably

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

faulty culpable reprehensible censurable blameworthy culpable of faultful delinquent vituperable

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

censurable illaudable overreach reprehensible iron-faced bare-bones ingrateful culpable ill-disposed thing